Conab will promote auctions to support the commercialization of cocoa beans

To guarantee minimum prices for cocoa beans produced in the states of Bahia, Espírito Santo, Pará and Rondônia, the National Supply Company (Conab) announced, this Tuesday (11/10), support for marketing aimed at rural producers, cooperatives, agribusinesses, processors and traders of this product. The incentive will be implemented through public auctions, which will offer economic subsidy instruments, such as the Equalizer Award Paid to Rural Producers (Pepro) and the Product Flow Award (PEP). 

The intention is to guarantee the maintenance of product reference prices and comply with the Federal Government's Minimum Price Guarantee Policy (PGPM). The action was authorized by the Interministerial Ordinance of the Ministry of Economy and Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Supply (Mapa) No. 4, of 10/10/2022, which defined a volume of resources of up to R$30 million for the disposal of the harvest product 2022/2023, originating in the specified states and destination to any location in Brazil. 

In the case of cocoa beans originating in the state of Pará, the Ordinance only excluded municipalities where production is predominantly extractive and which, therefore, already receive other types of support, such as the Minimum Price Guarantee Policy for Cocoa Products. Sociobiodiversity (PGPM-Bio). These include the municipalities of Vigia and those belonging to Marajó Island (Afuá, Anajás, Bagre, Breves, Cachoeira do Arari, Chaves, Curralinho, Gurupá, Melgaço, Muaná, Ponta de Pedras, Portel, Salvaterra, Santa Cruz do Arari, São Sebastião da Boa Vista and Soure).

In the case of PEP, processing industries and traders receive the premium after proving the purchase of the product at the minimum price, currently defined at R$ 12,99/kg, and transport to permitted destinations. In Pepro, the premium is offered to the producer or cooperative that sells the product for the difference between the reference price and the value of the Equalizer Premium sold, and proves the sale under the conditions set out in the Notice.

On the date of carrying out the operations, participants must be registered on the Commodities Exchange on which they intend to operate and in good standing with the Defaulters Registration and Control System (Sircoi) and the National Rural Producers Registry System (Sican) of Conab , in addition to having a regular registration in the Unified Supplier Registration System (Sicaf), as well as before the Federal Treasury and Social Security, among other requirements set out in the notices.